Stacey Ogden 🦔
Cell and Developmental Biologist @ St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - 🦔 signaling in 🧠🫀&🫁 - science 🧪, academia, DevBio research, mentoring, scicomm, 🔬, birds 🪶, hikes - fueled by ☕ & 🧘🏼♀️ - Y’all means all - Views my own and not SJCRH's
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- SciSky: Has anyone experienced Prism graphs embedded in TIFFs randomizing graph labels when converted to PDF? This has happened to us a couple of times. Software is up to date. Any idea why this happens and how to prevent it? Mac/PC issue? Is flattening the TIFF the only solution? Thanks! 🧪
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
- RIP Moira Rose 😢
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- Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This micrograph of SHH-expressing cells in the developing 🐭 spinal cord are giving aurora borealis vibes 🌄. Notice the thin extensions reaching out from the cells at the top of the image - signaling protrusions! 🔬 by 👩🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social
- Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This micrograph of SHH-expressing cells in the developing 🐭 spinal cord are giving aurora borealis vibes 🌄. Notice the thin extensions reaching out from the cells at the top of the image - signaling protrusions! 🔬 by 👩🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social
- I haven't left the house in a week thanks to the winter storm that rolled in last weekend. I'm starting to sense Shining vibes around the house ❄️ 🤪
- Bird nerd here 🙋♀️ I think the birds heard in this track are barred owls 🦉 - not “tropical” birds as suggested by the track title 🤓 🪶 open.spotify.com/track/7fcGja...
- Working from home. My office mate is snoring. #Snowday
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔If you are a scientist funded by NIH and agree that if the HHS/NIH bill is held hostage by linkage for funding to DHS/ICE, we need to shutdown both and save lives, its time to speak up. Right now, with a few exceptions, the silence is deafening
- Mordor vibes from DC continue.
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔“He was a calm presence amid hospital chaos. A mentor who taught kindness and patience to younger friends and colleagues. A singer with a knack for dancing. A bicyclist who treasured the beauty of Minnesota… He was the kind of nurse patients remembered, colleagues said, and he was a beloved mentor”
- The news from Minneapolis continues to sadden and horrify me. But - the actions of the brave and peaceful residents and protesters give me hope. You inspire me in these dark times. 💙💜
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking
- This chonk waddled into the yard today like a miniature feathered Darth Vader. First time we’ve had a rusty black bird at the feeder 🪶 #YardLifer
- This graphic is far superior to yesterday's "Golden Retrievers in a Tree" explanation of the weight of ice on trees (see next post).
- I've said it before and I'm saying it again. The Discussion is the hardest part of a 🧪 research paper to write. It would be a dream come true for me if all journals would immediately shift to the combined Results and Discussion format 🤓
- When Earth does #FluorescenceFriday! 🤩
- Happy #FluorescenceFriday! I've shared this before but am reposting b/c I think the developing #lung is just so darn pretty! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with 🟢 marking cells that express my favorite gene, Shh.🟣 marks cell membranes. 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc👩🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪
- Yet another threat to the future of NIH grant funding... Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Please enjoy this mourning dove photo from my feeder camera 😆 🪶
- Crystal clear 😂
- Some 🧪 research collaborations function seamlessly, and others are really clunky (for lack of a better word). Partnerships tend to form b/c of similar interests, goals, and complementary skill sets. So, why are some collaborations so much more productive than others?
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- If you are in the path of the incoming mega snowstorm - I have a couple of entertainment recommendations for your snow day ☃️ 1. Movie: Sinners - Wow! It deserves to win in every Oscars category it was nominated. ⚰️🧄 2. TV show: Drops of God - I. Am. Obsessed. 🍷
- Interested in imaging cytonemes? ✅ out this blog @focalplane.bsky.social by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! 🧪 🔬 👩🏻🔬
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔Recent findings from the IMPAACT Network study show adolescents with HIV in five countries safely switched from daily oral meds to all-injectable treatment every 2 months, maintaining viral suppression. 100% of patients in the trial preferred injectables. ow.ly/nUQQ50XXvQl
- I just found out about the pygmy hippo called Haggis...and I'm obsessed. #TLcleanse 🦛 bbc.com/news/videos/...
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
- Throwing this out there for those doing westerns on mouse embryo lysates: ALWAYS do a secondary only blot. No matter how "clean" your primary is, your secondary can (and will) cause problems - and Murphy's law ensures the crossreactivity will be the same size as your protein of interest 1/3 🧪 🤬
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- Every time I turn on the news or scroll through my feed I feel like I want to cry because the news about what is happening is always bad... ...and then I see a progress update about the monks walking for peace and I actually do cry. Hope and compassion are powerful forces. 🕊️
- In celebration of #MentoringMonth, I'm reposting this 🧵 I shared about my experiences mentoring grad students and postdocs. I hope some of you find it useful. 🧪
- I'm still trying to find a substitute for when I crave a 3rd (or 4th or 5th) cup of coffee in the morning 😵💫 I can now report that ashwagandha tea tastes terrible. Absolutely. Terrible 🤢
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔This White-throated Quail-Doves shows off its intricate #feathersandform in Valle del Cauca Colombia. April 2025. #birds #birdoftheday #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography
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- Thank you to these monks and Aloka the Peace Dog 🐕 ☮️ 🙏 🕊️ www.fastcompany.com/91468442/mon...
- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch. IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE. Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.
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- More of this please 🙏 ☮️
- Morrissey still being Morrissey. I attended a 1991 Moz show that ended after only 2 songs. His "explanation" was that he didn't like the security guys standing between him and the front row - It was making him sad so he couldn't sing. Never change, dude 😉 www.pastemagazine.com/music/morris...
- Woo hoo! 🎉 Shout out to @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly for her featured image on FocalPlane! ✅ the link for more about her research interests! 🧪 🔬 🤩 👩🔬🙌 #Microscopy #DevBio #Neurodevelopment #Cytonemes
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- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔Birds lay eggs in a diverse array of colors, patterns, sizes, and shapes. After looking at nearly 50,000 eggs from more than 1400 bird species, researchers in Science found that egg shape is related to flight ability. Learn more on #NationalBirdDay: scim.ag/3YUZkQc
- Celebrating the first #MicroscopyMonday of 2026! Here is another Andy Warhol inspired #SciArt composite of a confocal micrograph of a cell's nucleus and primary cilium. 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Christina Wang 🧪
- SHH exosomes surfing along the OUTSIDE of mesenchymal cell cytonemes - check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- It's Season's Greetings #FluorescenceFriday! Please enjoy these primary cilia colored to look like holiday lights! I hope you enjoy the season and get to spend some time with friends and family! 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Sam Hack 🧪 👩🔬
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- Reposted by Stacey Ogden 🦔I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy
- The Christmas Hedgehog! Happy Holidays!
- It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.
- This one never gets old! My favorite Far Side 🤓
